Subj : Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (029)
To   : Nodelist Police Commissioner
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Jan 29 2021 15:59:33

Hello Nodelist,

On Friday January 29 2021 14:55, you wrote to All:

 NC> ,911,Remote_Venta,St.Petersburg,Leonides_Kluev,-Unpublished-,300,CM,MO
 NC> ,LO,IBN,INA:ziphius.noip.me I noticed this LO flag for the first time
 NC> (AFAIR):

I have seen it before.

 NC> ;S               LO        Node accepts calls Only from Listed
 NC> ;S                         FidoNet addresses

 NC> Is this usefull?

Not IMNSHO.

 NC> There are new nodes not yet in the weekly nodelist.
 NC> Sometimes the nodelist distribution or processing of the nodelist
 NC> fails. So legit nodes are being excluded. Maybe a leaf node can act in
 NC> this way, but a node with some kind of hub function shouldn't...

Other than that: He DOES accept connections from unlisted nodes. I made a connect from my unlisted test node 2:280/5556.

+ 14:34 [3332] call to 2:5030/911@fidonet
  14:34 [3332] trying f911.n5030.z2.binkp.net [78.37.40.248]...
  14:34 [3332] connected
+ 14:34 [3332] outgoing session with f911.n5030.z2.binkp.net:24554 [78.37.40.248]
- 14:34 [3332] OPT CRAM-MD5-bf6567f2df41a7f4c97cf0c69b414142
+ 14:34 [3332] Remote requests MD mode
- 14:34 [3332] SYS Remote Venta
- 14:34 [3332] ZYZ Leonides Kluev
- 14:34 [3332] LOC St.Petersburg, Russia
- 14:34 [3332] NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
- 14:34 [3332] TIME Fri, 29 Jan 2021 16:34:03 +0300
- 14:34 [3332] VER binkd/0.9.5a/Win32 binkp/1.1
+ 14:34 [3332] addr: 2:5030/911@fidonet

AFAIK binkd has no (simple?) way to block unlisted nodes.

 NC> New node in net 229:
 NC> ,1017,BEETS_BBS,La_Prairie,Sebastien_Ruel,-Unpublished-,9600,CM,INA:be
 NC> ets.synchro.net,IBN Timeout.

And 9600 for a node not connectable with POTS...

 NC> New node in net 138:
 NC> ,396,The_Unknown_BBS,Finley_WA,Kevin_Crosby,-Unpublished-,300,CM,XX,IB
 NC> N:www.theunknownbbs.com,IFT,ITN Connect with binkit. Here an INA: flag
 NC> would have been better I suppose.

Indeed. As it is, there is no connect info for IFT and ITN.


Cheers, Michiel

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 * Origin: Nodelist Police Station (2:280/5555)

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